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i just gave @XTreme the sympathy vote ....

Cookie making went well today..... ....don't have the gingerdude cutter anymore so I made two kinds of ginger rounds. One snap style and one with icing and sugar ginger bits..... Yummy

Well @Pedro, if it was going to be a BMW, then better your wank panzer than that POS Harley wannabe.

3 a-levels and an AS level mate, end of the upper sixth form I was 19 ( going on 12) in 1990

I think I'm assuming the same status as Stu now Clive!

No, it's Cabo da Roca, Europe's westernmost point, near Lisbon: https://goo.gl/maps/TC1oP7w1L7b7JNYM6 Taken from this ride report: Cape Saint Vincent, and the surrounding coast is one of my favorite places in Portugal, though.

Yes indeed - there's some footage and photos in this video of both the death railway and Hellfire Pass.

I thought you would all pull your votes off at the last second, so didn’t comment earlier Thank you

I had offers from Lancaster and Hull, but that was the year that Thatcher did away with student grants and turned them into student loans. We had no money and I decided I didn't want to start my working life 20 or 30,000£ in debt after 3 or 4 years at Uni so I decide to simply go and do something I enjoyed.

He's now taken the vote off me and given it to the Beta Bum Boys!

one giveth...with one hand take away with other...

no no no clive , felt sorry for the twat

I'm a slow learner meself.

When I'm riding alone and go past a group of hunters I make it a point to toot my horn at them and wave hello, clearly wishing them a good hunt. Most don't seem too happy with it, though...

This photo made me giggle..... I'm looking at the nice mushroom and then I notice the Star Trek space alien plant off to the side....looks like it is going to attack the mushroom.... ok, maybe one too many glasses of wine this evening......

I know that's a strange title......but this is quite a strange occurrence. Because normally I get an approximate location of abandoned villages, buildings etc via internet searches, or through scanning Google Maps and Google Earth. Well this one came from neither of those sources......it was just something I stumbled across following farm tracks on the Granada/Almeria border. I have no idea which province it's in as there are no signposts in places like that, and I don't even have a name for the village either. Because it doesn't actually exist anywhere. I'm wondering if it's one of those mythical Ghost Villages that only appears once a year or something? Anyway.....wherever it is, and whatever it may be called, this one was very unusual! Firstly I did about 20kms up some rough farm tracks...... And there it was! Now this wasn't just a few bits of rubble......there were even deserted streets. This seemed to be the main street running through it...... Empty buildings everywhere......many of whom weren't as old as the ones I normally visit. Had a look inside the ones that were accessible...... This was probably the largest area of abandoned properties that I've ever visited......yet there's no reference to it's actual existence anywhere. The bike got quite dusty and sandy covering this area, so once I got back to town it was straight to the Jet Wash. However, they'd run out of fucking water. No water cuts in town........it's just their car wash has no water! Don't fucking ask! So my day consisted of stumbling across an abandoned village that doesn't seem to have existed......and a Jet Wash that has no water! For no apparent reason!

I know I’m not the only one that noticed.

Should have taken my offer of sympathy voting each other now your just a

Well...I commend you on your humanitarian qualities..............and you call me a "Twat"

twat

Sorry......how considerate of you

Well there is no Mod gig Clive! But if the Annoying Cunt gig was up for grabs he'd be a contender for sure!

Yeh, but does he get the Mod gig?.

If you want to be in the running it seems you've got to get the sea in the picture.....so no hope for me!

Pedro's is a great pic

2 hours was about all I was going to get, by the time N0.1 daughter had emptied the fridge into a coldbox and dissapeared off out of it back to uni in Dijon, it was gone 3pm and the temps would drop off again with sunset so I just picked a 100 odd km loop that was already in my phone from a previous ride and just rode it the other way round. mostly smaller back roads and with the weather we've been having they were covered in a film of slime and mud from the fields that made it a little "interesting" in places. Add to that the number of "chasseurs" in the woods with their hi viz camouflage worrying the wildlife into inhabitual daytime action there were moments when I was more than pleased to have an effective ABS system to assist in avoiding a deer and numerous rabbits and hares who seemed intent on escaping the flourescent gun toting nutters by hitching a ride... The light was not strong and failing fast so little point in taking pics. the wildlife, having been politely refused permission to come aboard, didn't hang around long enough for me to get the camera out.

That has made me very hungry, Im off to get something to eat!

Is it Petes birthday?

How long does it take for this stuff to crumble, seems a lot of it around you. Buildings look like a rendered stick together whatevers around.

Must have been the pre-donut years.

So just below right of the twat I said you might have been......damn im was close

Is that you coming out @Buckster ?

I’m on a mac, but it’s similar, I think

It’s a prediction.

Poll closed.......and congratulations to @Pedro

Spiteful.........

Just a security precaution Pedro.......normal text is fine, but I-Frame code like you had is a risk.

they all look real tasty

Nice and picturesque, and muddy too! I like the fog pictures, hate fog myself but it's a great feeling when you ride out of it.

not sure how the herd would appreciate that, but be good to meet up for a coffe or a beer or summat.

The Van Van preferably!

Who doesnt love big jugs.

After the crossroads at the A354 I made my way towards Tarrant Launceston............. and then onto Tarrant Monkton where I had a little play in the ford............... Next up I climbed up the hill to the site of RAF Tarrant Rushton which saw a lot of action in WW11 as it was used for glider operations for D-Day..........